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0 pointsrobbrown4516y ago0 comments

They have a choice between two monopolistic platforms, frankly.

Your purchasing decisions are not mutually exclusive with action from courts and legislators and voters and such. And, especially if you take into account that market theory as well as game theory tends to view individuals as rational agents pursuing self interest (1), a pure free market approach simply does not effectively curtail monopolistic and otherwise anti-competitive behavior of corporations.

[1] as a baseline, anyway.

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Fellshard6y ago

As a user, I can freely sideload onto Android devices, or even use custom Google-free distributions. This argument is incomplete.

robbrown451OP6y ago

And a court would likely take that into account. They might even consider that you have the right to fabricate your own phone, and write the operating system from scratch.

Luckily courts take into accounts the barriers inherent in such things. If few enough people do such things because the difficulty of doing so makes them impractical for most people, they give appropriately low weight to such arguments.

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